Preventing Violent Extremism through Peacebuilding: Current Perspectives from the Field

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Notes

1 The session was led by Melinda Holmes and Endre Stiansen with the participation of Noufal Abboud, Murray Ackman, Hamsatu Allamin, Larry Attree, Charlotte Booth, Marina Caparini, Maria Clara, Madeline de Greer, Sirkku Hellsten, Sofia Bergquist Knutsson, Ottilia Maunganidze, Olivier Nette, Thomas Nyagah, Robert Orell, Fredrika Ornbrant, Mossarat Qadeem, Eric Rosand, Ola Saleh, Mohamed Yahya, and Jiayi Zhou, among others.

2 Fatima Al-Bahadly from Iraq highlighted this point during remarks at the United Nations on 20 September 2016.

3 ‘Daesh’ is the Arabic acronym and preferred term for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria as it has a negative sound and average Arabic speakers do not recognise it as an acronym thereby avoiding conferring legitimacy on the group by referring to it as either Islamic or a state.

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Melinda Holmes

MELINDA HOLMES is a peacebuilding consultant, writer and policy advisor focusing on gender, religion and political violence. She is currently programme manager for transforming extremisms with the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN) and a Visiting Fellow at LSE’s Centre for Women, Peace & Security.